Phase behavior of low-functionality, telechelic star block copolymers

Autor(en)

Federica Giulia Lo Verso, Athanassios Panagiotopoulos, Christos Likos

Abstrakt

We apply state-of-the-art, Grand Canonical Monte Carlo simulations to determine the self-organization and phase behavior of solutions of block copolymer stars. The latter consist of f AB-block copolymers with N monomers each, which contain a solvophilic block A and solvophobic block B, and which are tethered on a common center on their A-side. We vary the degree of polymerization N and the relative composition of the block copolymer arms and investigate the interplay between macrophase and microphase separation in the system. Preliminary results of the effect of increasing the number of arms, f of the stars are also presented.

Organisation(en)

Computergestützte Physik und Physik der Weichen Materie

Externe Organisation(en)

Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Princeton University

Journal

Faraday Discussions

Band

144

Seiten

143-157

Anzahl der Seiten

15

ISSN

1359-6640

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1039/b905073f

Publikationsdatum

2010

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

1030 Physik, Astronomie

Link zum Portal

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/de/publications/f4d2248b-e0de-4d0a-bb93-bff47132b4eb